… Health-care workers should be provided with tools, … ensure both their physical and mental well-being. It is essential to keep this in mind when … Gaza, Syria and Ukraine. Read: Health Care in Danger newsletter, July – November 2015 …
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… ICRC services, secretariats and departments in Geneva have an index number starting with … Researchers must therefore be particularly careful to respect the privacy of the … d'accueil d'Eric Martin, symposium IHD ''The Health Care Cost Explosion'' …
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… At the 32nd International Conference of the Red Cross and … need to continue working together to protect health-care workers and facilities. Driven by that …
… The 32nd International Conference, held in Geneva from … report (2015, 32IC/15/19.3) Resolution 4: Health Care in Danger: Continuing to protect the …
… known as Azahara, has been an ICRC nurse in Gao, northern Mali , for over five years. … a key member of the team delivering surgical care at Gao hospital. After several years with … later, in the hospital or elsewhere, in good health and smiling," she explained. "That …
… Giving birth in South Sudan is often dangerous and difficult. Medical care can be long distances away, forcing … travel on foot late in their pregnancy to a health facility – a hardship endured by …
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Created in 1863, the ICRC library, alongside the ICRC archives, provides an indispensable documentary reference on the organization itself and international humanitarian law.
International humanitarian law is based on a number of treaties, in particular the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols, and a series of other instruments.
Customary international humanitarian law consists of rules that come from "a general practice accepted as law" and that exist independent of treaty law.
